Pretending you know what you’re doing is almost the same as knowing what you are doing, so just accept that you know what you’re doing even if you don’t and do it.

Banish procrastination. If you wait more than a week to get an idea done, abandon it.

The point of being done is not to finish but to get other things done.

Once you’re done you can throw it away.

Laugh at perfection. It’s boring and keeps you from being done.

People without dirty hands are wrong. Doing something makes you right.

Failure counts as done. So do mistakes.

Destruction is a variant of done.

If you have an idea and publish it on the internet, that counts as a ghost of done.

Done is the engine of more.

Lots of people got excited by this manifesto’s dynamism and go-getting attitude, but I was disturbed by visions of these dynamic go-getters blazing ahead and leaving a trail of half-”done” projects in their wake for people like me to fix.

I can see the appeal — the manifesto has an air of Futurism about it. “The Futurists loved speed, noise, machines, pollution, and cities; they embraced the exciting new world that was then upon them…”

That’s the problem with the Cult of Done. It’s really about doing, not about getting things done. A real Cult of Done would emphasise finishing things properly so they really are done. The point of being done should be to finish, not “to get other things done”. If you really just want to get other things done, you’re not actually interested in “done” at all: you’re interested in “next”. Hence the Cult of Next.